What Does Acts 1:13 Mean in the King James?
And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Their first shared place is a room where they continue to remain together.
THE MEANING
The verse places you among a named community whose shared presence begins in one room. They enter, go up, and stay there together. Here, remaining together is already part of what comes next.
THE ROOT
καταμένοντες
katamenontes
GROWS FROM
μένω
remain, stay, continue
“abode” in this verse is katamenontes. The Greek verb καταμένω is built on μένω, meaning to remain. Alongside the room itself, the word carries their continued presence there together: they have come in, and they stay.
ALSO GROWS
monē: dwelling place, abode
μονή
The same root can name a place to dwell, linking their continued staying with the room that holds them.
paramenō: remain, continue
παραμένω
This related form makes the continuing sense explicit: the verse describes a community that stays together.
THE PATTERN
Shared presence gives a gathered community its shape before it moves outward.
A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.THE THREAD
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.Acts uses καταμένω, built on μένω, the same Greek root rendered abide here. The room gives that continuing presence a physical setting; John extends the same word to continuing in relation.
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